Another great meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media club today, following the one we had in August. The gathering seems to be growing as I was sitting at one end and there were so many people that I only had conversations with the people around me. So, apologies to people I didn’t really interact with much, but I’m sure a great time was had by all.
The corner I was sitting in discussed a number of things including (but not limited to):
- Head Tracking using Wii Remote:excellent example of innovation achieving brilliant results with minimal expenditure
- Seth Godin: we always talk about Seth Godin
- Engrish.com: Because light-hearted conversation is always essential
- Photo Dropper: Excellent plugin for WordPress that makes adding photos to your blog as easy as pie
- WordPress Disaster Recovery: Using an automated process to backup your site and email it to a Gmail account
- WP Cumulus: An excellent plugin I use on MBA Geek
- I’m sure there were others .. remind me guys …
Here are some of the peopl who turned up: Derek, Nick, Leo, StrivePR, ToonJamie, Chris, Rob and many others. The next one is on the 16th October, but I may be away on holiday celebrating my birthday, so not sure if I can make it.
Update: Sherrilynne blogged about it too … eventually …
nickop on September 18th, 2008
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We also spoke about Brightkite.com, the next big thing being location based applications, Google street view, oh and there was a very quick mention of business’s that try and service their customers on different platforms (and how it doesn’t work!) All of which took place in between several slurps of red wine and the odd mouthful of Pizza and Caesar Salad.
Owen on September 18th, 2008
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Ah yes, that reminds me. Gotta send you a Brightkite invite
rucksack on September 19th, 2008
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Sounds like a useful meet – why do you always talk about Seth Godin?
Peter Answers on September 19th, 2008
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Never heard of a couple of those plugins, will check them out. That ‘za looks delicious.
veinglory on September 19th, 2008
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Lordy, I need to think about Wordpress backup.
Breezie on September 19th, 2008
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The Photo Dropper plugin sounds like something I would be interested in.
Aahz on September 19th, 2008
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Chow AND great conversation. I am soooo jealous.
{note to self: move to Isle of Man}
Dana on September 19th, 2008
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Oooh, love that Photo Dropper! Thanks for the new toy!
Sultana (Syari) on September 20th, 2008
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I found 2 important plugins from this post. Wordpress disaster recovery and the photo dropper.
I lost all my posts on one of my blogs the other day. That was a real nightmare. My host provider managed to retrieve but I still lost some posts which I had to re write again.
I feel adding images on wordpress isn’t easy. I usually upload my images somewhere else and paste the code.
Owen on September 20th, 2008
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@rucksack: Turns out that most of the people who turn up are involved in marketing or PR. Seth is one of the thought leaders in the area (in my humble opinion) so we always end up talking about some idea of his
Owen on September 20th, 2008
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@Sultana: Re images the new versions of WordPress make it a doddle. You can upload images and it will resize them for you automatically and even turn them into a slideshow if you want.
Photodropper just makes it easier because you give it a search term and it just pulls them up from Flickr. Zemanta now has a “filter” facility that lets you do the same too